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... > social science subjects > sociology > environmental, urban and regional sociology > environmental sociology > key people in environment and society > Gifford Pinchot

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Gifford Pinchot  

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  • Gifford pinchot, arguably the progenitor of modern American conservation and forestry, was born to a wealthy family in Connecticut in 1865. Upon graduating from Yale University, Pinchot went on to the French National Forestry School, learning techniques and concepts that would later develop further through German and British Imperial forestry, and which underpin modern natural resource management. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Pinchot, Gifford]

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